Please spay and neuter your pets! While your newborn pets are cute, failing to do this allows your little darlings to add to the population of homeless animals. Adopt pets from your local animal rescues/shelters, there are plenty of animals just waiting for a home.

When I was around ten, I saw one of these at Sportsman's warehouse with my dad. He told me it was a "head tent." I was thoroughly impressed by the concept, and I wanted to know more. He elaborated as all knowledgeable outdoorsman are prone to do, and he explained to me that when a backcountry trip is too far to carry a full size tent, some inventive folks prefer to use head tents. You bring a waterproof sleeping bag, and you put your head in the tent. You're protected from the rain and lurking beasts of the night by the tent, but without the burden of carrying a big one. Being quite resourceful myself, I had to have one. I looked everywhere to find one, but they never actually had any on the shelves! The idea was so good, head tents were always sold out! For whatever reason, the Cabela's catalog failed to include them! Somehow, by some miracle, my wish for a head tent was eventually granted. On the morning of what I think was my 10th or 11th birthday, I was handed a basketball sized box. By this time I had forgotten head tents, and they were but a distant dream. Tearing the paper of the mysterious package, I found a plain brown box-the kind that the more sadistic variety of parents use to briefly delay their children from knowing the contents on Christmas morning. I ventured further, and cutting the tape, found what had moments before been no obtainable than the pet bobcat I had requested. Could it be? Was the myth really true? My eyes had begun to see the world with a hint of cynicism, but they were as bright as those of any first world child when before them was laid, lo and behold, a head tent. Eager to test the principle, my parents allowed the continuation of the ruse for an entire night in the treacherous mountains of Colorado. While they rested peacefully in their heated toy-hauler camper, I braved the harshness of reality on the hard ground outside, with my dreams in the stars, my future adventures in my mind, and my head in a tiny REI display tent. The night wasn't all it was cracked up to be, but if there's anything I learned in my metamorphosis from starry-eyed child to disillusioned teenager, it was one thing: The definition of the word "gullible."

almost, what I was referring to was this you slip it over your sleeping bag and then pop up the part that goes around your head. They work great for flying bugs, never really had a problem with crawlers.

or barbies. or stuffed animals. or goggies. or small monekys, really any cat sized animal. source>>> i once worked for a store that sold tents. and we had a dozen of these model tents and sleeping bags, we even sold doll house kits and had built models on display we would sell when we changed sets. there are also little model canopies, and folding table and chair set ups. and to fully go there, there have been sales models of just about every thing, like the recent mini tool phase reddit went thru .....i recently caught a tv show forget which one but the guy had a recliner and a barbers chair, miniture sized. like barbie or a slight bit bigger sized. dude wanted like a lot of money for the one chair.

My friend's son has autism and he was really obsessing over the mini tent displays at Home Depot. He had to know everything about them and what the store did with them when they were done with them, etc. until finally she took him to the store and allowed him to ask. He's such a sincere and determined kid that the store manager took their name and phone number and at the end of the season, kept his word and not only gave him a mini tent display, but also this super cool mini gazebo display. They are his most treasured items--it's so cool!

Of course it is. Everyone knows that cats are bourgeoisie. Just layin' around all day, not working, while the rest of us go out and earn money so we can pay for their fancy organic free range pet food and their medical bills and their lavish parties. And they won't even let us pet their bellies!

I think the reps sell them on ebay after they are done, there are quite a few on there, most targeted towards the barbie/gi joe aspect of it. A smart person would note that they are cat sized and put them in the pets section :)

I feel like only two kinds of people try to buy things that are not explicitly for sale: rich people and American tourists. It is such a strange phenomenon to go some historical or cultural site and have somebody say to the tour guide, "that's pretty, HOW MUCH?" Only to have the tour guide explain that it is a priceless piece of history.

Anyway, maybe I'm just weird. But if you really do want one, may I suggest to try eBay. There are like a dozen for sale for under $100 if you search for "tent display".

They are handmade in small numbers. There's no factory capable of mass producing them. Cheap labour makes them not too expensive, but mass production would require a large investment to build a factory. Special punches for small eyelets, special sewing machines for tiny zippers, stuff like that.

I used to work at REI. I used set up the tents. We always had a few of those miniature tents to demo large ones lying around. I had been asked many times by customers if they "could just buy this tent?" While holding one of the demos.

The answer we were required to give per the brand reps was that we can sell it but it costs $2000. Why? I have no idea but that was what we were officially told to reply with.

Anyway, you're pretty luck, op. From my experience, there is not a whole lot of those available!

Nope. At least not while I was there. It was actually a bit heart breaking sometimes because they would present it to me, giddy and excited at the thought of using for their pet. And each time, a sadness dawned on their faces.

You'd think they'd recognize the marketing opportunity. Not just selling widdle biddy tents but all the photos on the interwebs of kitties sitting in them with their brand slapped on the side of the tent in comparatively big letters.

I begged so many store employees about buying those at the end of the season. It would have been the crown jewel in my collection of cool stuff for barbie. I just wanted her to camp outside with me and my friends! Childhood dream crushed.